What they are telling you. I have the Lapua and think it is great, but if you are hunting and not hand loading go with the Creedmoor for ammo available at decent prices.My buddy shoots the 140 Hornandy factory very accurate to 800 yards in his Creedmoor.

For a 300 yd hunting rifle there would be no reason to spend the extra coin shooting the 6.5x47. 1000yds and handloading the 6.5x47 has some possible benefit over the creed. Factory creedmoor ammo from Hornady shoots well under MOA in my go to factory savage rifle (shoots at or under 2" at 300 yds) and the 129 sst's have been sudden death on everything I have killed with it so far. I handload most everything but the price of facory loaded ammo for the creedmoor has kept me from loading for this one. I purchased 500 loaded rnds and have the dies and compontents to start loading it when these run out.

For a 300 yd hunting rifle there would be no reason to spend the extra coin shooting the 6.5x47. 1000yds and handloading the 6.5x47 has some possible benefit over the creed. Factory creedmoor ammo from Hornady shoots well under MOA in my go to factory savage rifle (shoots at or under 2" at 300 yds) and the 129 sst's have been sudden death on everything I have killed with it so far. I handload most everything but the price of facory loaded ammo for the creedmoor has kept me from loading for this one. I purchased 500 loaded rnds and have the dies and compontents to start loading it when these run out.

One or two of those will outshoot them all. Run em all through the chronograph (if you have one) most likely the lowest ES will produce the smallest group. That's your load. Once all your brass is fire-formed, re-tweak the load again, if you so desire.

P.S. once the barrel gets about 200-250 rounds down it, it will speed up. That's what 6.5 millimeters do.

And I understand, problem is I can't have both so I'm thinking the least expensive overall.

If cost is your deciding factor on the ammo, the 6.5x47 Lapua will win out. The brass may be $1 each to start out. But you can get 12-18 reloads on the brass. I know shooters with 15 reloads on their x47 Lapua brass. With the CM, the brass is about $.60 each, and you may get 5-6 reloads. If you averaged out the CM and the x47, the x47 will be less in the long run for ammo if you reload the brass until it's done. Bullet powder, and primer can all be the same cost.